Improvement in overshoes



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Overshoes.

No'. 144,810. Patented N0v.18,1873.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE WATKINSON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE L. CANDEE & CO., OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN VERSHOES.

Specification formingr part of Letters Patent No. 144,810, dated November 18, 1873; application filed August 16, 1873.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE WATxINsoN, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Overshoes 5 and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connec tion with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,

and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, and represents a side view.

, This invention relates to an improvement in overshoes, such as are made from india-rubber or its allied gums, and the upper formed in a single piece; the object being the construction of a shoe which shall extend up the heel and over the instep, and so as to protect both, yet not be so close as to prevent perfect ventilation.

As commonly constructed, the shoe cannot extend far up onto the instep or at the heelsay, up tothe broken line in the drawing-because if so made it could not be drawn onto the foot; and, if it could be, it would be so close around the ankle asv to prevent ventilation, and make the shoe too uncomfortable to be worn.

My invention, whereby an overshoe in which the front is out down over the instep and turned, as at D; thence running forward to meet the cut from the heel at C. Otherwise the shoe is constructed in substantially the usual manner.

I claim as my invention- As an article of manufacture, an india-rubber overshoe in which the front extends up, as at B, and the heel as at A, and cut both from the points B and A to meet at C, forward of the upper edge of the instep portion, as herein described. f

GEORGE WATKINSON.

Witnesses:

A. J. TIBBITS, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

